Ken Jeong fails his 'Sunday Night Football' audition

NBC Sunday Night Football open auditions video

Over the summer, NBC auditioned several the network's stars to sing the theme song for "Sunday Night Football." After watching this collection from the open auditions, you'll see why Carrie Underwood was chosen.

Over the summer, NBC auditioned several the network's stars to sing the theme song for "Sunday Night Football." After watching this collection from the open auditions, you'll see why Carrie Underwood was chosen.

OK, that's the "big" news coming from the NBC Sports Group today, but the better news is the list of NBC stars who will not be performing "Waiting All Day For Sunday Night." Over the summer, NBC had open auditions to find the perfect voice to sing the song, and created a compilation video showcasing the "talents" of stars Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel, Joan and Melissa Rivers, Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker, Natalie Morales, Jillian Michaels, Billy Bush, Ken Jeong, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, Yvette Nicole Brown and Craig T. Nelson.

The best bit from the video above? When "Community" star Jeong says "K. Jeong auditioning for sniff audition." He's reading off the clapper board, which reads "SNF Audition."

Honestly, I think Jeong should have been hired, just like he does. But Underwood is taking over Faith Hill, and on Sept. 8 will be joined by the following list of NFL players for her performance.

The Sept. 8 broadcast of "SNF" pits the Dallas Cowboys against NFC East rivals the New York Giants, beginning at 6 p.m. CT on NBC. Below is the schedule from NBC, which does not include the Sept. 5 NFL Kickoff broadcast between the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos or the Nov. 28 game between Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens. Because those are Thursday games.

Editor's note: An early version of this online article was unintentionally published with source material and draft notes. As soon as the error was recognized, the article was corrected and reposted within an hour. The source material contained a paragraph from a Sun-Times report.

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